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==Origin==

==Origin==

partly from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] murther, from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO SAXON_PERIOD Old English] morthor; partly from Middle English murdre, from Anglo-French, of Germanic [[origin]]; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, [[Latin]] mort-, mors death, mori to die, mortuus dead, [[Greek]] brotos morta

partly from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] murther, from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO_SAXON_PERIOD Old English] morthor; partly from Middle English murdre, from Anglo-French, of Germanic [[origin]]; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, [[Latin]] mort-, mors death, mori to die, mortuus dead, [[Greek]] brotos morta

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century Before 12th Century]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century Before 12th Century]

One of the oldest known prohibitions against murder appears in the Sumerian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The payment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild weregild] was an important legal [[mechanism]] in early Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood [[revenge]]. If someone was killed, the [[guilty]] person would have to pay weregild to the [[victim]]'s [[family]].

One of the oldest known prohibitions against murder appears in the Sumerian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The payment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild weregild] was an important legal [[mechanism]] in early Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood [[revenge]]. If someone was killed, the [[guilty]] person would have to pay weregild to the [[victim]]'s [[family]].

In [[Islam]] according to the [[Qur'an]], one of the greatest sins is to kill a [[human being]] who has committed no fault. "For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the [[earth]], it shall be as if he had killed all [[mankind]], and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind."[Qur'an 5:32] "Those who invoke not, with [[Allah]], any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; - and any that does this (not only) meets punishment. "[[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Dinner_Table Qur'an 25:68]]

In [[Islam]] according to the [[Qur'an]], one of the greatest sins is to kill a [[human being]] who has committed no fault. "For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the [[earth]], it shall be as if he had killed all [[mankind]], and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind."[Qur'an 5:32] "Those who invoke not, with [[Allah]], any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; - and any that does this (not only) meets punishment. "[[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Dinner_Table Qur'an 25:68]]

The term '[[Assassin]]' derives from Hashshashin, a militant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismailism Ismaili] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam Shi-ite sect], active from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries. This [[mystic]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society secret society] killed members of the Abbasid, Fatimid, Seljuq and Crusader elite for [[political]] and [[religious]] reasons. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thugee#The_practice Thuggee cult] that plagued India was devoted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali Kali], the goddess of [[death]] and destruction. A very conservative estimate is that the Thugs murdered 1 million people between 1740 and 1840. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs Aztecs] believed that without regular offerings of blood the sun god Huitzilopochtli would withdraw his [[support]] for them and destroy the world as they knew it. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the 1487 re-consecration of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Tenochtitlan Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan].  

The term '[[Assassin]]' derives from Hashshashin, a militant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismailism Ismaili] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam Shi-ite sect], active from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries. This [[mystic]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society secret society] killed members of the Abbasid, Fatimid, Seljuq and Crusader elite for [[political]] and [[religious]] reasons. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thugee#The_practice Thuggee cult] that plagued India was devoted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali Kali], the goddess of [[death]] and destruction. A very conservative estimate is that the Thugs murdered 1 million people between 1740 and 1840. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs Aztecs] believed that without regular offerings of blood the sun god Huitzilopochtli would withdraw his [[support]] for them and destroy the world as they knew it. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the 1487 re-consecration of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Tenochtitlan Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan].

 

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: the [[crime]] of unlawfully killing a [[person]] especially with malice aforethought

*1: the [[crime]] of unlawfully killing a [[person]] especially with malice aforethought